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...Ken Watanabe is becoming something of a patron saint of cinematic lost causes. In The Last Samurai, the Japanese actor played the title role as a doomed warrior with nothing left but his honor. He's at it again in his new film, this time as a World War II Japanese officer mounting a last stand against American troops in the critically acclaimed Letters From Iwo Jima. Watanabe, 47, spoke with Time's Michiko Toyama about his role, what it was like working with director Clint Eastwood, and the challenges of being true to the horrors...
Just before Christmas, the pals had a Last Supper of steak and wine at the Caucus Room, a lobbyists' hangout just off Capitol Hill. "Half the people in this room will be unhappy in a year and a half," Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager, told them. But he said that what matters is how they conduct themselves and that they come back together to work for the nominee. An attendee says Madden told several of his elders who are going to work for McCain, "I may take a chunk out of you. But at least...
...handful of major cables located in north Asia that link with the rest of the world. But not only Asia was affected. As traffic was re-routed, networks on other continents were swamped with the digital overflow. "Our (corporate network) based in Germany has been completely clogged," says Ken Oka, who works for an IT consulting company in Tokyo. "All the re-routed traffic has been causing a slowdown in other parts of the world...
...back that the GAO report only confirms that developing new drugs has become a more expensive, difficult and risky exercise for manufacturers. "Researchers are tackling increasingly complex diseases using new tools-such as genomics, proteomics and nanotechnology-that will take years to bear fruit," says PhRMA Senior Vice President Ken Johnson, adding that "more than 2,000 new medicines are in development, including 646 medicines for cancer, 146 for heart disease and stroke, 77 for AIDS, and 56 for diabetes...
...plus soldiers who defended the island against the ferocious American assault were ordered to die rather than surrender, and most did. It's a tragic epic that director Clint Eastwood personifies by focusing mainly on two stories: the dutiful, civilized general (Ken Watanabe) and a common soldier (Kazunari Ninomiya) who is clumsily, almost comically, determined to live. The dialogue is in Japanese, but this account of war madness --intense and compassionate--carries a universal and heart-breaking message...